Proverbs 7:8
He was passing by the street near her corner, making his way along the road to her house
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Referenced Verses
- Judg 16:1 : 1 Samson’s Downfall Samson went to Gaza. There he saw a prostitute and slept with her.
- 2 Sam 11:2-3 : 2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of his palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. Now this woman was very attractive. 3 So David sent someone to inquire about the woman. The messenger said,“Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”
- Prov 4:14-15 : 14 Do not enter the path of the wicked or walk in the way of those who are evil. 15 Avoid it, do not go on it; turn away from it, and go on.
- Prov 5:8 : 8 Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,
- Prov 7:12 : 12 at one time outside, at another in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait.)
- 1 Cor 6:18 : 18 Flee sexual immorality!“Every sin a person commits is outside of the body”– but the immoral person sins against his own body.
- 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 But keep away from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace, in company with others who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
- Jude 1:23 : 23 save others by snatching them out of the fire; have mercy on others, coupled with a fear of God, hating even the clothes stained by the flesh.
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- Prov 7:5-73 verses84%
5 so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words.
6 For at the window of my house through my window lattice I looked out
7 and I saw among the naive– I discerned among the youths– a young man who lacked sense.
- Prov 7:9-135 verses83%
9 in the twilight, the evening, in the dark of the night.
10 Suddenly a woman came out to meet him! She was dressed like a prostitute and with secret intent.
11 (She is loud and rebellious, she does not remain at home–
12 at one time outside, at another in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait.)
13 So she grabbed him and kissed him, and with a bold expression she said to him,
- Prov 7:18-225 verses79%
18 Come, let’s drink deeply of lovemaking until morning, let’s delight ourselves with love’s pleasures.
19 For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a journey of some distance.
20 He has taken a bag of money with him; he will not return until the end of the month.”
21 She turned him aside with her persuasions; with her smooth talk she was enticing him along.
22 Suddenly he was going after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper’s snare
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8 Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,
- Prov 7:25-273 verses77%
25 Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways– do not wander into her pathways;
26 for she has brought down many fatally wounded, and all those she has slain are many.
27 Her house is the way to the grave, going down to the chambers of death.
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14 And she has sat down at the door of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city,
15 calling out to those who are passing by her in the way, who go straight on their way.
16 “Whoever is naive, let him turn in here,” To those who lack understanding she has said,
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3 She has sent out her female servants; she calls out on the highest places of the city.
4 “Whoever is naive, let him turn in here,” To those who lack understanding, she has said,
- Prov 8:2-32 verses74%
2 At the top of the prominent places along the way, at the intersection of the paths she has taken her stand;
3 beside the gates opening into the city, at the entrance of the doorways she cries out:
- Prov 2:16-183 verses74%
16 to deliver you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words;
17 who leaves the husband from her younger days, and has ignored her marriage covenant made before God.
18 For she has set her house by death, and her paths by the place of the departed spirits.
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7 When I went out to the city gate and secured my seat in the public square,
- Song 3:2-43 verses73%
2 “I will arise and look all around throughout the town, and throughout the streets and squares; I will search for my beloved.” I searched for him but I did not find him.
3 The night watchmen found me– the ones who guard the city walls.“Have you seen my beloved?”
4 Scarcely had I passed them by when I found my beloved! I held onto him tightly and would not let him go until I brought him to my mother’s house, to the bedroom chamber of the one who conceived me.
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11 The Journey to the CountrysideThe Beloved to Her Lover: Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside; let us spend the night in the villages.
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15 Avoid it, do not go on it; turn away from it, and go on.
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8 The Lover to His Beloved: If you do not know, O most beautiful of women, simply follow the tracks of my flock, and pasture your little lambs beside the tents of the shepherds.
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6 Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths have wandered, but she is not able to discern it.
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17 Her ways are very pleasant, and all her paths are peaceful.
- Prov 5:20-212 verses72%
20 But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?
21 For the ways of a person are in front of the LORD’s eyes, and the LORD weighs all that person’s paths.
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21 at the head of the noisy streets she calls, in the entrances of the gates in the city she utters her words:
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20 So you will walk in the way of good people, and will keep on the paths of the righteous.
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7 The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. They beat me, they bruised me; they took away my cloak, those watchmen on the walls!
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25 True Righteousness and Wisdom Are Virtually Nonexistent I tried to understand, examine, and comprehend the role of wisdom in the scheme of things, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the insanity of folly.
26 I discovered this: More bitter than death is the kind of woman who is like a hunter’s snare; her heart is like a hunter’s net and her hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.
- Judg 19:26-272 verses71%
26 The woman arrived back at daybreak and was sprawled out on the doorstep of the house where her master was staying until it became light.
27 When her master got up in the morning, opened the doors of the house, and went outside to start on his journey, there was the woman, his concubine, sprawled out on the doorstep of the house with her hands on the threshold.
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19 the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship in the sea, and the way of a man with a woman.
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34 Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching at my doors day by day, waiting beside my doorway.
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1 The Lost Lover FoundThe Maidens to the Beloved: Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned? Tell us, that we may seek him with you.
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27 for the man met her in the field and the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.
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26 for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.